Word: uncleane
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...raise the cry that women are "losing their femininity." Actually, he argued, femininity is a matter of fashion: "In some cultures women have done hard labor, while in others they have been thought of as fragile and weak. Sometimes they have been priestesses, but elsewhere they have been thought unclean and unfit for priestly duties . . . The moral is that what will offend, anger, or alarm a man in woman in one society, will in another seem to be right, natural, and inevitable-and therefore feminine and attractive...
...subcommittee, holding its hearings in the major ports of entry, plans to concentrate on imported pornography, although other prime concerns will be "unclean" records and the flow of communist propaganda into this country...
...oratorio is based on the Biblical story of Jacob's dream of a wondrous ladder on which angels moved between heaven and earth. In Schoenberg's vision, the bottom of the ladder is occupied by earthbound souls-the cowards, skeptics, cynics, journalists and unclean ones. The top of the ladder is filled with geniuses, gods and angels. The ascending and descending figures represented for Schoenberg the reincarnation that keeps human events in motion. The Ladder's lesson: "Learn to pray: he who prays is become one with...
...kitchen dishwater-as well as the quality of the food-guided the tasters. Burger, who put in a month's work for Michelin to help him with the Mobil job, reports that some highly rated French eating places would have been ruled out by his staff because of unclean kitchens. A similarity between the Michelin and Mobil scouts: both announce their impending arrival by letter, months in advance; but the inspectors eat incognito, revealing their identity only after they have finished their meal...
...Gratias. Toeless, fingerless, he gets about; he is a "burntout" or arrested case, like Querry himself, but his mutilation has left him unfit to live in the world, and so he re-enacts the Biblical horror that obliged the leper to carry a warning bell and cry of himself, "Unclean...